PrintLimit @ Saint Mary's College

All Saint Mary's students will be given a $100 credit (1000 pages) for printing each academic year. An individual's unused quota, either from the provided quota or additional quota purchased via print cards, will be carried over from year to year until a student graduates or leaves the College.

A student will only have to pay for printing if this initial $100 quota is used up during the academic year. Students will be able to purchase additional print quota through print cards available at the Bookstore and Convenience Store. Cards will be available in $5, $10, and $20 denominations.

Students will be charged 10¢ per page printed. For example, if a student prints out an eleven-page document, her account will be charged $1.10 for the printout.

When a student prints a document double-sided from the Trumper Xerox printer, her account will be charged 10¢ for each piece of paper that is printed. For example, if a student prints out an eleven-page document double-sided, her account will be charged $0.60 for the printout.

Student groups on campus will not be provided with free printing. Student groups that wish to print using the group's account (rather than have students' personal accounts charged for printing) will need to purchase print cards. Any student group that has a Saint Mary's e-mail account or web page can use that same account for printing once print cards have been purchased. If a group has purchased print cards and has entered the necessary information into the group's PrintLimit account, they can print using their group's username and password when prompted to have the group's account charged rather than an individual's account for the print job.

For tips on how to help reduce your personal printing costs in the clusters, including instructions on how to print documents double-sided, printing multiple PowerPoint slides to a page, and how to print multiple pages on a single side of a piece of paper, please visit the Clusters FAQ at http://www.saintmarys.edu/~clusters/clustersfaq/.

When You Print

When you log into a cluster computer, you will see a pop-up window appear informing you of your remaining print quota.

When you print a document, you will see the following window appear:

(Note: On a Mac, you may need to click on the bouncing green and yellow printer icon in the dock to bring this window to the front.)

Read the information on the window carefully, taking note of:

the name of the document you are printing
the printer you are printing to
the amount that your quota will be charged for the printing
the number of pages you are printing.

Confirm that you want to print your document by typing in your Saint Mary's username and password.

The print job will then print, and the cost of your print job will be subtracted from your print quota.

Because you will have the opportunity to review the number of pages you are printing and will be confirming your print job with your username and password, refunds to your quota because you printed something unintentionally (PowerPoint slides one to a page or a web page that you thought would fit on a single piece of paper but actually printed out an additional nine blank pages afterward) will NOT be given.

Checking your Quota

You should see a pop-up window appear with your PrintLimit quota when you log into a cluster or classroom computer. However, we have been experiencing issues with this feature that we hope to resolve during the 2008/2009 academic year.

http://print01.saintmarys.edu:9191

Another feature of this PrintLimit site is the ability to view the environmental impact your printing has had. During the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 academic years combined, the Trumper Xerox alone had the following environmental impact:

12.40 trees
8,585.3 kg of carbon dioxide
Equivalent to running a 60W bulb for 282,849.7 hours

Requests for Refunds

Cluster Consultants and Residential Computer Consultants do not give refunds for printouts. Refunds will only be given if there was a known printer problem at the time you were printing, and refunds will be given at the discretion of Information Technology staff.

Refunds for unintentional printouts (PowerPoint slides printed one per page, blank pages, etc.) will NOT be given.

Refunds will also not be given if the print job is cancelled at the printer (including from the display on the Trumper Xerox). Exceptions will be made if a Cluster Consultant, RCC, or Information Technology staff cancelled the print job because of a known printer problem at the time you were printing.

Cash refunds for unused printing quota, either from the provided quota or additional quota purchased via print cards, will not be given.

E-mail printlimit@saintmarys.edu from your Saint Mary's e-mail account to request a refund. Refunds, if given, should not be expected to appear on your account immediately.

Increasing your Quota with Print Cards

A student will only have to pay for printing if her initial $100 quota is used up during the academic year. Students will be able to purchase additional print quota through print cards available at the Bookstore and Convenience Store. Cards will be available in $5, $10, and $20 denominations.

When you log into a cluster computer, you will see a pop-up window appear informing you of your remaining print quota. Click on the Details link in that PrintLimit window.

You can also access your PrintLimit account at http://print01.saintmarys.edu:9191 from any networked computer on campus.

Type in your Saint Mary's username and password where prompted and click Login.

Click on the Redeem Card link in the left column.

Type in the card number found on the front of the print card you purchased.

Click Redeem Card.

Your quota will be increased by the amount the print card was issued for.

The print card can be discarded - it cannot be used again.

Questions or problems?

E-mail printlimit@saintmarys.edu with your questions, concerns, or to report problems.

Last Modified August 13, 2008